James S. Murphy
I write about higher education and culture. Mostly higher education. I also work on higher education policy designed to increase college access, affordability, and completion. Email me.
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The 2025 Post-SFFA Enrollment Tracker
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ACTS is Happening
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What Types of Institutions of Higher Education Lead to Lower Earnings?
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An Update on ACTS: The Department of Education’s New Admissions and Graduation Survey Is Higher Ed’s Problem Now
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My Comment on How to Improve Transparency in College Admissions
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A Brief Explainer on the Trump Administration’s Planned Admissions Data Collection and How to Fix What’s Wrong with it
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Is Trump’s New Admissions Data Collection Following the Law?
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It’s Not that Hard to Get into College
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The Significant Technical Problems with the Trump Administration’s New Admissions Survey Component
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What the Trump Administration Wants to Know about College Admissions
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Making Sense of the Changes Coming to Higher Ed Admissions Data Collection
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Republicans Lost the Fight Over a College Endowment Tax
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How to Tax Endowments Properly
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What Percentage of Institutional Revenue Comes from Federal Grants and Contracts
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Understanding International Student Enrollment and the Threat to America’s Research Dominance (in charts!)
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The Impact of the Proposed Increase of the University and College Endowment Tax
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The Impact of an NIH 15% Indirect Cost Rate
